Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1887-07-20
MISS DILLY DAILY.

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She is a sort,of omnipresent damsel,
common to all communities, and on IA
nous visiting terms with all the neigh
& borhood-at least, she thinks so. She
always runs into your house in great
haste as though her wish was to borrow
fire, instead of !, telling you Tin voice
lowered in terrorized accents) that your
neighbors on the other side of her, have
just closed a loving tussle to remove su-
perfuous tresses from each others de-
voted heads. Indeed, our lingering in
formant draws on her imagination so
strongly in depicting the manipulation of
Jet and cardinal locks, that we see
forthwith mental picture of the
angelic book-keeper above, with busy
pen subtracting handfulls of hair from
our neighbours record.
She has remained standing during
this exciting recital, she being '.in too
much of hurry" to sit down. Now
she sinks into chair and relates other
direful happenings, her haste apparently
OF lesser Importance than her chit chat,
and the budget she is generously ban
quoting You upon. All the time she is
going, but doesn't get off. Perhaps
Miss Oily Daily is such very kind
hearted creature, and seeing the implied
entreaty in your face for just one more
of her stories, she cannot deny you her
oil OF Oh 10 h.
shock of her departure by frequently
reiterated warnings of '.Wen, really, I
must CO."
But she doesn't, She settles back
and aimlessly talks for ten more minu-
tes, through the washer women may be
waiting for her wages, with sick
family at home needing her immediate
presence; or, she may be cheating you
out of other duties which you are anx-
ious to discharge; but courtesy keeps
you there giving ear to Miss billy
Dally's gasconading and idle gossip.
Finally, this creature of most tire
some habit will arise; but still she tar
ries, standing in various unbcconing>
attitudes, repeating for the tftieth
time, Il just run over for minute"
forgetting she had already slain many
golden minutes.
She may get half way down'the hall
when she will suddenly brighten up
with something she. chad nearly forgot
to say" Then, in nervous state, you
must listen to what is of no more bene-
fit to you or humanity in general than
Hebrew is to Geronimo. Then she hangs
on to the door knob, still talking, as if she
held the hand of a long lost friend and
felt loath to part with it. After the door
is opened, she issues general and par
ticular invitations to everybody present
to 'scan soon" pitched her voice to up
per e to reach those who may not have
followed her to the door.
She may get so far as the gate. when
an after thought, or a last underscore
to s.can soon,'' strikes our "going" cal
Ter, and you must risk pneumonia by
standing in the chill winds to patiently
and politely hear to the end.
Everybody seems relieved after Miss
Oily Dally's departure. She may be
ever so nice otherwise, but her prolonged
announcements of going deract from
her society materially.
Miss Oily Daily and all others whom
it may concern, when you say you must
go, put your potential verb into force
and GO. Do not daily and have every
body on the gui e1ve to see you 60. Be
not offensive short or abrupt, but 90,
when You say that You are going.-Prof.
AID. II. GIBSON, tn ST. Louis Magazine.